Comment by victorbjorklund
2 hours ago
There are lots of different things people can find interesting. Some people love the typing of loops. Some people love the design of the architecture etc. That’s like saying ”how can you enjoy woodworking if you use a CNC machine to automate parts of it”
I take satisfaction in the end product of something. A product where I have created it myself, with my own skills and learnings. If I haven't created it myself and yet still have an end product, how have I accomplished anything?
It's nice for a robot to create it for you but you've really not gained; other than a product you're unknown to.
How long until we have AI in CnC machines?
"Lathe this plank of wood in to a chair leg x by x."
>If I haven't created it myself and yet still have an end product, how have I accomplished anything?
Maybe what you wanted to accomplish wasn't the dimensioning of lumber?
Achievements you can make by using CNC:
I take satisfaction living in a house I did not build using tools I could not use or even enumerate, tools likewise acting on materials I can neither work with nor name precisely enough to be unambiguous, in a community I played no part in before moving here, kept safe by laws I can't even read because I've not yet reached that level of mastery of my second tongue.
It has a garden.
I've been coding essentially since I learned to read, I have designed boolean logic circuits from first principles to perform addition and multiplication, I know enouhg of the basics of CPU behaviours such that if you gave me time I might get as far as a buggy equivalent of a 4004 or something, and yet everything from there to C is a bunch of here-be-dragons and half-remembered uni modules from 20 years ago, then some more exothermic flying lizards about the specifics of "modern" (relative to 2003) OSes, then apps which I actually got paid to make.
LLMs lets everything you don't already know be as fun as learning new stuff in uni or as buying new computers from a store, whichever you ask it for.